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shortened |
1 definition found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shortened adj 1: cut short; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" [syn: {sawed-off}] 2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: {abbreviated}, {truncated}] 3: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" [syn: {telescoped}] 4: with parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: {cut}]
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